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SODA
2003
ACM
158views Algorithms» more  SODA 2003»
13 years 5 months ago
Comparing top k lists
Motivated by several applications, we introduce various distance measures between “top k lists.” Some of these distance measures are metrics, while others are not. For each of...
Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, D. Sivakumar
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
S3K: seeking statement-supporting top-K witnesses
Traditional information retrieval techniques based on keyword search help to identify a ranked set of relevant documents, which often contains many documents in the top ranks that...
Steffen Metzger, Shady Elbassuoni, Katja Hose, Ral...
EDBT
2008
ACM
169views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Efficient online top-K retrieval with arbitrary similarity measures
The top-k retrieval problem requires finding k objects most similar to a given query object. Similarities between objects are most often computed as aggregated similarities of the...
Prasad M. Deshpande, Deepak P, Krishna Kummamuru
SDM
2007
SIAM
149views Data Mining» more  SDM 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
WAT: Finding Top-K Discords in Time Series Database
Finding discords in time series database is an important problem in a great variety of applications, such as space shuttle telemetry, mechanical industry, biomedicine, and financ...
Yingyi Bu, Oscar Tat-Wing Leung, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, ...
DC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
Approximate distributed top- k queries
We consider a distributed system where each node keeps a local count for items (similar to elections where nodes are ballot boxes and items are candidates). A top-k query in such ...
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Allon Shafrir